January 20, 2019
Yet More Nails in the Nuclear Coffin
Were it not for blanket Brexit, smothering every other news item, I suspect there would have been a lot more coverage of the recent collapse of Hitachi’s nuclear pretensions here…
April 24, 2018
Nuclear Power in the USA: Going, Going …
When the biggest nuclear operator in the US says that the nuclear power industry in the US is, to all intents and purposes, DEAD, then we should probably take notice. Here are the…
February 19, 2018
EdF’s Latest Nuclear Bullshit
It’s not often that nuclear matters make me laugh out loud. But yesterday provided one such occasion, on reading of the latest announcement from EdF that a new ‘optimised reactor’…
November 4, 2017
Small Modular Reactors: The Nuclear Industry’s Latest Pipe Dream
You’ve got to hand it to the nuclear industry: they’re one resilient bunch of never-say-die hard-arses! By any standards, 2017 has been an annus horribilis for the industry, with…
November 1, 2017
The Campaign to Stop Fracking Moves on – to the Vale of Ryedale!
(With reference to my blog last week, the Sheffield tree story is now reaching a crunch point. Last week, Green Party Councillor Alison Teal was found not guilty of breaching…
April 21, 2017
Imagining a Non-Nuclear World
I found myself laughing rather too enthusiastically at a couple of jokes on last week’s Now Show (on Radio 4) about Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. Laughing in the face of the…
April 11, 2017
The Terminal State of the US Nuclear Industry
It’s quite something to find myself in a country where nuclear power is even more of a basket case than it is in the UK – and that of course is the United States of America. Not…
March 9, 2017
Nuclear Weapons, Donald Trump and ‘Playing with Fire’
There are so many reasons to be apprehensive about the Trump Presidency that it’s hard to know which ones really matter, and which are just part of his unremitting campaign to…
February 20, 2017
Decommissioning in the North Sea: Rigs, Reefs, but not much Realism
We hear a lot these days about how the oil and gas industry is winding down in the North Sea – and so it is. Which means that huge numbers of rigs, pipelines and other offshore…
January 31, 2017
The Future Lies not in our Stars, but in our Sun (part 2)
I can’t help but think of the World Future Energy Summit as a great big oily bubble: despite the fact that the work of companies of every conceivable variety is on display in the…